nomadic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite migratory
    mobile; wandering; peregrine; roving.
    • a restless mobile society
    • the nomadic habits of the Bedouins
    • believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future
    • wandering tribes

WordNet


No*mad"ic adjective
Etymology
Gr. . See Nomad.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad"ic*al*ly adv.

Webster 1913